CVSS 3.1
5.5 mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HCVE-2020-12049
Medium (5.5). EPSS 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
An issue was discovered in dbus >= 1.3.0 before 1.12.18. The DBusServer in libdbus, as used in dbus-daemon, leaks file descriptors when a message exceeds the per-message file descriptor limit. A local attacker with access to the D-Bus system bus or another system service's private AF_UNIX socket could use this to make the system service reach its file descriptor limit, denying service to subsequent D-Bus clients.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 47% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-404
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- canonical:ubuntu_linux
- freedesktop:dbus
References
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/172840/D-Bus-File-Descriptor-Leak-Denial-Of-Service.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/06/04/3
- https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/dbus/dbus/-/issues/294
- https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/dbus/dbus/-/tags/dbus-1.10.30
- https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/dbus/dbus/-/tags/dbus-1.12.18